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Lockdown Home Deliveries Spark Surge in Electric Vehicle Orders as Consumer Environmental Concerns Rise

The delivery industry is on the cusp of an electric vehicle revolution fuelled by increasing consumer concerns over the environmental impact of their home deliveries in lockdown, according to new findings.

8 Mar 2021

PayByPhone Welcomes New Government Green Number Plate Scheme

With almost three times as many battery-powered cars registered in the first three months of 2020 than in the same period of 2019, the introduction of green number plates for electric vehicles in January 2021, couldn’t have been more timely. The number plates make electric vehicles more easily identifiable as zero emission vehicles, helping local authorities design policies to incentivise people to drive electric. The scheme is part of a wider government initiative to make UK roads greener and aligns with the announcement of 2030 as the new fast-tracked milestone for the end of sales of new petrol and diesel cars and vans.

4 Mar 2021

Pioneering Electric Vehicle Charging Project Celebrates Milestone 10,000th Completed Charge

A revolutionary project that is transforming electric vehicle charging across Lanarkshire has now completed 10,000 charges, less than 18 months since it began.

1 Mar 2021

Tesla in India: Boost in a Country with Low Appetite for Electric Cars, Reports IDTechEx

Tesla has plans to enter a new market: India. This story has unfolded only one way so far. Tesla decides to enter a new market and quickly becomes the top-selling EV maker by leveraging its powerful brand and class-leading technology at a competitive price: China, South Korea, the UK, the Netherlands, and Norway, to name a few countries which have been conquered so far. But will it be so easy in India?

1 Feb 2021

Nottingham Opts for Open-Source IoT Technology to Optimize its Electric Vehicle Fleet

The City of Nottingham is developing an intelligent energy management system (iEMS) for its Clean Mobil Energy project using OpenRemote’s open-source IoT platform.

18 Jan 2021

Russelectric, A Siemens Business, Adds Electric Vehicle Charging to Massachusetts Renewable Microgrid Systems will Help Maximize Uptime and Support Business Continuity

Russelectric, A Siemens Business and manufacturer of distributed energy and microgrid control systems for mission critical commercial facilities for 50 years, has added electrical vehicle charging capabilities at its Hingham, Massachusetts, facility.

15 Jan 2021

Apple Tie-Up with Hyundai Could Boost its Automotive Plans, says GlobalData

Following the news that Hyundai has confirmed it is in early talks with Apple to establish a partnership to develop and produce electric vehicles and related batteries, Calum MacRae, Automotive Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view.

8 Jan 2021

Toyota Develops Just-in-Time Efficient Operating System for Mobility Services

Toyota has developed a system to manage the operation of its e-Palette autonomous battery electric vehicle, to deliver goods, services, and mobility to people when and where they are needed.

From Toyota 24 Dec 2020

Volvo Group Begin Customer Deliveries of All-Electric Products

Launching a new generation of zero exhaust emissions products, leading French contractor Eiffage has taken delivery of an all-electric Volvo FE Electric truck and a Volvo ECR25 Electric compact excavator – becoming the first recipient of the products in France.

17 Dec 2020

ZeroAvia Secures £12.3m UK Government Grant to Bring 19-Seat Hydrogen-Electric Aviation Powertrain to Market

ZeroAvia, the leading innovator in decarbonising commercial aviation, has secured £12.3m ($16.3m) in Government funding through the ATI Programme to deliver a breakthrough 19-seat hydrogen-electric powered aircraft that is market-ready by 2023.

From ZeroAvia 16 Dec 2020